Test 9 · ★ · Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness
my lil bro just barges in when im on the loo
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lil bro · What happens: barge in, im · To what, where: loo
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 216 «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bro | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lil | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bro | amod |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 barges | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 barges | advmod |
| 5 | barges | barge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 barges | compound:prt |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 im | advmod |
| 8 | im | im | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 barges | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 loo | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 loo | det |
| 11 | loo | loo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 im | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | barge in | present | my lil bro | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | im | participle | my lil bro not said here | the loo | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Lock everyone out of the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lock | lock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Lock | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lock | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | imperative | you not said here | everyone | the house | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient |
Option 2
That's normal, doors stay open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 normal | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 normal | cop |
| 3 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
| 5 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 normal | parataxis |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stay | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | doors | open property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
You should leave the door open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | aux |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obj |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leave | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | should | You | the door | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The toilet is private; he should knock first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 toilet | det |
| 2 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 private | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 private | cop |
| 4 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 knock | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knock | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 knock | aux |
| 8 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 private | parataxis |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 knock | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the toilet | private property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | knock | should | he | first property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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